In 1931 the bar opened in an old rope warehouse facing
the Grand Canal near Piazza San Marco and soon welcomed various European kings and queens, aristocracy and celebrities including Truman Capote, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Aristotle Onassis and Ernest Hemingway — who had his own table.
Not exact matches
In the past he travelled on the
Grand Union
Canal from London to Birmingham making pickled cucumbers on the way or more recently from the Akashi Sea,
near Kobe, to Tokyo carrying a live octopus.
Evan Penny: Ask Your Body shows the artist's mature work in the intimate setting of Chiesa San Samuele, a venerable church
near the
Grand Canal.
It is situated in the San Cassiano area, overlooking the
Grand Canal and
near the site of the present International Gallery of Contemporary Art at Ca» Pesaro.